New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Soni Pandey's Suno Kabir took me back on a memory lane to 2004, when I was an election observer for the Azamgarh constituency in the general elections that year. I knew three thin... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- High up in a little Ladakhi village, a young boy named Otsal spies three fluffy kittens and their stern-looking mother in the family storeroom. "Amalele, amalele," he says to hi... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- A General's Odyssey by Army Commander Lt Gen (Retd) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia is far more relatable to the young women and men of India than the heroic journey of Homer, the king of... Read More
Call it happenstance, Aug. 30 -- I picked up this latest offering from one of India's finest fiction writers Namita Gokhale in late August, and - as in the novel - in real life, a red alert has been d... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- In his search for 'cannabis in India, and India in cannabis', Karan Madhok (born 1984) began his wanderlust after quitting his Times of India job in Varanasi when he was in his 2... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- the first where material is so abundant that the challenge is to select the 'relevant' from the 'ubiquitous'; the second where information is so scant that one has to dig deep, f... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Giving a 'voice' to diplomatic spouses, whose contribution to the nation has been left unsung, Jayshree Mishra Tripathi, a diplomat's spouse and poet, has curated a wonderful offe... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- Uttam Kumar Sinha's scholarly treatise Trial by Water: Indus Basin and India Pakistan Relations could not have come at a more opportune time. Two days after the bloodshed in pictu... Read More
New Delhi, July 26 -- Deeragh doha arath ke, aakhar thore aahin,Jyon Rahim Nat Kundali, simti kudicharhi jahin Couplets comprise a few letters, but hold abundant sense,As the crouching acrobat, Rahim... Read More
New Delhi, July 19 -- Student leader, community organiser, educator, Viceroy's commissioned officer, counter insurgency specialist, military cross winner, minister, legislator, assistant commandant in... Read More